Background: Discourse abilities play an important role in the assessment, classification, and
therapy outcome evaluation of people with aphasia. Discourse production in aphasia has …

Background: Language and communication are fundamental to the human experience, and,
traditionally, spoken language is studied as an isolated skill. However, before propositional …

Some recent lines of research suggest that there are two different domains of discourse
processing where one is concerned with the form and meaning of sentences and their parts …

Background Right hemisphere communication disorders are neither consistently labelled
nor adequately defined. Labels associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) are …

Spoken language production theories and lesion studies highlight several important
prelinguistic conceptual preparation processes involved in the production of cohesive and …

Aim of the present study is to provide a multifocal assessment of pragmatic abilities in
patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD). Pragmatics refers to the ability to use …

Purpose: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) commonly causes pragmatic language
disorders that are apparent in discourse production. Specific characteristics and approaches …

Although subtle discourse declines in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have
been reported, heterogeneous measures and tasks among the MCI discourse studies have …

Purpose: Adults with right hemisphere damage demonstrate differences in connected
speech compared to controls, but systematic, quantitative methods to capture these …

To understand how neural networks in the left (LH) and right (RH) cerebral hemispheres
contribute to different aspects of language comprehension, in two experiments we measured …